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Finally found a thing mostly resembling what I imagine a web zine to be.
I want to create something similar.
The criteria:
⁃ pulished in issues ⁃ sequential editorial design resembling printed media ⁃ simple and robust web technology only, should be readable on 10+ years old devices ⁃ niche and independent af ⁃ delightful ⁃ downloadable/replicable ⁃ privacy respecting
It's also clear I need improvements for Geminate consonants which Hungarian uses, this is why Hungarian and some languages still sound off. these will be new rules. Sue Hertz made Eloquence with lots of rules. I must consider how her work was and read papers. What if we added: geminateClosureScale: 1.8 geminateReleaseScale: 0.9 # release stays normal
Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…
I went through this with a track I was writing for our last album- I had a guitar, vocal and drum machine demo. I thought “what would Tony Levin do?” And it didn’t work. Then I thought “What would Colin Mouding do?” and I was getting all wrapped up in the idea, and nothing came of it. The third thought was “What would Chris Vreeland do?” And the track flowed like water. It’s busy as fuck, but that’s me. 🙂
So, Perspective Intelligence is amazing! There are new vision features that are really amazing, and we now have web search thanks to @tayarndt The beta will be out soon. You will need All Access from the app Store version to try the web search beta though. All vision features will be free. I'd really love to see everyone’s feedback. #AI, #tech, #iOSDev
Well, you lose some, you win some. Yesterday morning our water froze. This morning at around 7:12 AM Central time our power went out, but thankfully we have a whole house generator so we're still good to go. Power's still out. At around 7:19 AM, the water thawed, so for at least right now, we have water again. Needless to say, many jugs and two-liter bottles are now full of water in case it freezes again which it almost certainly will.
Call me what you want but every time someone responds to some huge fascist attrocity with a lot of urgent action language, and their call to action is ... Call congress and ask them to impeach someone? I can't help but heave a heavy sign as I see people's time and energy being fucking wasted, while we should be forming emergency response networks on our residential blocks.
What's happening in Minnesota is an escalation of things that have happened in other cities - Chicago, Portland, LA, DC. It could be coming to your city next.
I don't say that to scare you. But it might be good to ask yourself:
If this was happening in my neighborhood, who would I reach out to? How would I take action? Who would I trust?
Start building those connections now. If you already have some, strengthen them.
Die #CD Kollektion wird neu gerippt. Diesmal nicht zu mp3 oder ogg, sondern zu flac 📀 Mag sein, dass das #Audio #Esoterik ist. Aber mit diesem Kopfhörerverstärker ein Genuss. 😊 #DOUKAUDIO
Stay away from the U.S. and its federal thugs. Do not come here for FIFA. Do not come here for the Olympics. Do not come here at all if you value your life and liberty.
Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is a Grift on Global Scale
The absurdity of our times may best be summed up in the Trump regime’s brand new oxymoronic “Board of Peace.” ...
Unsurprisingly...Trump...appointed himself Chairman for Life. Permanent membership on the board requires an investment of 1 billion US dollars...
A “Board of Peace” created by a megalomaniac obsessed with imperial ambitions is the ultimate example of grift on a global scale. counterpunch.org/2026/01/22/tr…
The absurdity of our times may best be summed up in the Trump regime’s brand new oxymoronic “Board of Peace.” Established by Trump on January 15, 2026,
A little side project to provide the fediverse with information i've been missing and have had to rely on FB/IG on to get:
Concert and festival announcements.
A ton of this information is only available on these platforms or sometimes days later through other platforms, often resulting in missing your chance to buy tickets.
None of this is automated and mostly catered towards my own region (NL) and interests for now (Indie/Punk/Metal/Hardcore).
not just gratitude, the rest of the country should be stepping up with their own bravery (and they are, but moreso!) -- and the rest of us need to be stepping up ourselves
Every American owes a huge debt of gratitude to the brave people in Minnesota who are risking their lives to video the horrific crimes of masked thugs under Trump's vicious regime.
I really appreciate people calling out specific words, those examples are exactly what helps us decide which cases to tackle next. Eloquence handled many of these cases with hand-tuned lexical rules, which is something we’re gradually adding back where it makes sense. The improvements so far are mostly foundational (engine stability, timing, phoneme consistency), and the next phase is more about targeted language-specific overrides.
Recall that case when I asked for y before ã to be made more longer? I don't know whether the normalization rule tontaining the length mark should be explicitly present in pt-br.yaml, but the case is, the lengthenedScale setting appears to have no effect on such words when I change its value, whether I make this change on NVDA's settings or the phoneme editor. Currently, the normalization rule isn't present in pt-br.yaml; only the lengthenedScale setting is.
lengthenedScale only has an effect when the IPA contains a length mark (ː). In pt-br, some eSpeak builds output y in the “-ião” type sequences, and Speech Player normalizes y -> i after the base pt rules run, so the existing lengthening rule never sees it. Fix: add this to pt-br.yaml right after the y -> i rule: - from: "iˈãᴜ" to: "iːˈãᴜ" - from: "iˌãᴜ" to: "iːˌãᴜ" After that, changing lengthenedScale will actually do something for those words.
The hate. The coverups. The justifications meant to strip you of dignity and humanity.
It’s ugly. It’s harsh. It’s violent.
But it has always been this way.
For years, I’ve said something many of you did not want to hear: that “good white folx” would eventually find themselves harmed by the very systems, institutions, and policies rooted in the myth of white supremacy that you believed protected you by default.
what if we just made more pixels, even if everything else like the color, the sky, even the hair is completely wrong
Winter blue tardis
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